Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

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About the Authors JESSELIBERTYis the author of numerous books on software development, including best-selling titles in C++ and ...

Dedication Jesse Liberty:This book is dedicated to the living memory of David Levine. Bradley Jones:Dedicated to my wife and our ...

We Want to Hear from You! As the reader of this book,youare our most important critic and commentator. We value your opinion and ...

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Introduction This book is designed to help you teach yourself how to program with C++. No one can learn a serious programming la ...

2 Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days This book uses various typefaces to help you distinguish C++ code from regular English. Act ...

At a Glance As you prepare for your first week of learning how to pro- gram in C++, you will need a few things: a compiler, an e ...

4 Week 1 constants and how to use data in your programs. On Day 4, “Creating Expressions and Statements,” you will learn how pro ...

DAY 1 WEEK 1 Getting Started Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days! Today, you will get started on your way to becoming ...

In time, higher-level languages evolved, such as BASIC and COBOL. These languages let people work with something approximating w ...

Getting Started 7 1 fallen, these priorities have changed. Today, the cost of a programmer’s time far out- weighs the cost of mo ...

In the few years since the first edition of this book, programmers have responded to the demands of users, and, thus, their prog ...

Getting Started 9 1 In turn, obtaining each employee’s record can be broken down into the following: Open the file of employees ...

Encapsulation When an engineer needs to add a resistor to the device she is creating, she doesn’t typi- cally build a new one fr ...

Getting Started 11 1 C++ supports inheritance. With inheritance, you can declare a new type that is an exten- sion of an existin ...

This book does not assume you have any prior programming experience. If you are a C programmer, however, the first few days of t ...

Getting Started 13 1 The ANSI standard is an attempt to ensure that C++ is portable—ensuring, for example, that ANSI-standard-co ...

something new. The programmer who can offer these alternatives will never suffer from lack of work; finding less-expensive solut ...

Getting Started 15 1 The Process of Creating the Program .................................................................... Th ...